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Lily Cake
by Anna
(England)
I was requested to make a cake for a family friend; however I was asked a day before her birthday so it was a big rush to create something. Her favourite flower is lilies so I found a picture of a lily and printed it four times.
I made chocolate transfers as I didn't have time to go through the whole ordeal of freezing buttercream, so I melted dark chocolate and traced the outlines of the lilies onto wax paper. The chocolate sets quickly so within five minutes it was hard. I didn't even have to put it in the fridge! I melted white chocolate and poure dit into the gaps, then left to set. For the stems I mixed green food dye into the chocolate before pouring, as well as mixing in yellow dye to form the pollen.
I had leftover white chocolate so I freehanded her name on paper and put everything in the fridge to harden. I baked a plain sponge cake and made some buttercream, which I dyed green as it is a nice summery colour. I iced the cake and peeled the lilies and letters from the paper. I stuck the transfers into the icing and to finish made a border out of white chocolate buttons.
It was a fairly easy cake to make and onyl took me a couple of hours!
